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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Dec 19, 2022 1 min read [\#requests](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/requests) 

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Python's [requests](https://pypi.org/project/requests/) package supports both HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies which can be set for each request or the whole script:

python```python
import requests

# proxy pattern is:
# scheme://username:password@IP:PORT
# For example:
# no auth HTTP proxy:
my_proxy = "http://160.11.12.13:1020"
# or socks5
my_proxy = "socks://160.11.12.13:1020"
# proxy with authentication
my_proxy = "http://my_username:my_password@160.11.12.13:1020"
# note: that username and password should be url quoted if they contain URL sensitive characters like "@":
from urllib.parse import quote
my_proxy = f"http://{quote('foo@bar.com')}:{quote('password@123')}@160.11.12.13:1020"


proxies = {
    # this proxy will be applied to all http:// urls
    'http': 'http://160.11.12.13:1020',
    # this proxy will be applied to all https:// urls (not the S)
    'https': 'http://160.11.12.13:1020',
    # we can also use proxy only for specific pages
    'https://httpbin.dev': 'http://160.11.12.13:1020',
}
requests.get("https://httpbin.dev/ip", proxies=proxies)
```



Note that proxy can also be set through the standard `*_PROXY` environment variables:

shell```shell
$ export HTTP_PROXY="http://160.11.12.13:1020"
$ export HTTPS_PROXY="http://160.11.12.13:1020"
$ export ALL_PROXY="socks://160.11.12.13:1020"
$ python
import requests
# this will use the proxies we set
requests.get("https://httpbin.dev/ip")
```



Finally, when web scraping using proxies we should rotate proxies for each request. See our [how to rotate proxies](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-rotate-proxies-in-web-scraping) guide for more. For more on proxies see [introduction to proxies in web scraping](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/introduction-to-proxies-in-web-scraping)



 

    



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